Gnarls Barkley "ST. ELSEWHERE" RATING: 3 SOUND LEVELS. Danger Mouse plundered the Beatles' "White Album" (a.k.a. "The Beatles") to remix Jay-Z's "Black Album" as "The Grey Album." Cee-Lo Green sang and rapped with the Goodie Mob and on various projects from the Atlanta hip-hop scene. Together they are Gnarls Barkley, whose debut is a manic, twisted soul album that's part nostalgia and part dementia. Most of the 14 terse tracks are songs, not raps. Madness is a recurring theme, and the danceable songs are funny with dark undercurrents.

On the same day that Charles Barkley called the Philadelphia 76ers "a lazy team," his pals in the locker room fired back with the opinion that Barkley can be a selfish player who consciously disrupts the offense. In Saturday night's 102-95 loss to the Clippers, Barkley scored 10 of the Sixers` 16 fourth-quarter points. It's no coincidence, according to teammates, that Barkley was the only one able to score. "Charles is holding the ball too long," said Ron Anderson. "There's a lot of time being taken off the clock, and I think we could have gotten better shots.

The television screen in the middle of the Phoenix Suns` locker room is flickering with all eyes gazing in its direction, though not for long. "Gave up money so they could sign Danny Ainge, and you think he's even thanked me," Charles Barkley says with that playful sneer, motioning toward the former Trail Blazers guard the Suns signed this summer. "You can`t be nice to people." Ainge, eyes fixed on the screen, turns toward Barkley, smiles and shakes his head. "You don`t pay too much attention to what Charles says," Ainge tells a reporter.

Michael Jordan has a little advice for Charles Barkley. No, that's not quite right. He has a lot of advice. Loosely translated, it's something along the lines of "Lighten up, Chuck." "I like Charles, he's a good guy," said Jordan. "I just wish he could get out of all his problems." Let's see, when last we checked in with Barkley, the Sixers had defeated the Bulls Dec. 7 to break Chicago's 14-game winning streak, and he was relatively free of controversy. Oh sure, the week before, he had told the media that if reserve center Dave Hoppen was kept on the team, it would have to be because he was white.

The Sports Xchange Eagles land QB Barkley The Philadelphia Eagles started the third day of the NFL draft by trading up to select Matt Barkley as the first player in the fourth round. Barkley, the 98th overall pick, was projected to be the fifth USC quarterback drafted in the first round, but every team passed on him multiple times in the first three rounds. Barkley was a four-year starter at Southern Cal. He missed the final two games and postseason with a shoulder injury and was molded in a pro-style offense.

The Sports Xchange Barkley rips Suns management Former NBA star Charles Barkley, now an analyst on TNT, heavily criticized the Phoenix Suns' management and said he was interested in the vacant general manager job during a radio interview this week. Barkley, who played for the Suns in the 1990s, told Phoenix radio station KGME 910 AM that his former team is poorly run. The transcript of his comments ran in the Arizona Republic. "The Suns are the Titanic," Barkley said.